The U. S. Secretary of Labor regards the apprenticeship system as falling short of what it is capable of accomplishing and recommends the suggestions proposed by a task force for new initiatives to remedy the situation. (AG)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

U.S. Employment Service meshes manpower needs at local level. (Editor)

A selected compilation from the annual report on job training and related matters. (Editor)

Lack of long-range planning diminishes use of manpower policy as economic tool. (Editor)

A Manpower Administration study of nine geographical areas notable in manpower planning progress identified major determinants of successful local manpower planning as: support from high level, elected officials; clout; participation by agency administrators; labor market planning scope; management through budget; development of new planning…

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Negro students shun technical fields despite rise in opportunities for them. (Editor)

The article discusses the MWEP (Minority Women's Employment Program) funded by the Manpower Administration and designed to place underutilized college-educated minority women in managerial, professional, and technical jobs for which they qualify. The program is the first major attempt to apply outreach techniques to persons seeking white-collar…

Because of increasing shortages of accountants, the profession is opening up rapidly to blacks and women. Many more blacks would enter accounting if college counselors informed them of the available opportunities. (BH)

The shortage of trained manpower remains a troublesome problem that must be overcome if the national attack on water pollution succeeds. The total number of persons treating waste water in 1967 was 11,300 professionals, 10,300 technicians, 23,500 sewage treatment plant operators, and 50,000 maintenance workers. (BC)

Describes changing personnel needs for administrators, supervisors, specialists, and line workers in the corrections field. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

The article discusses the various approaches used by small and large firms to upgrade workers, how major changes in industry affect upgrading, and the effects of economy on job upgrading. (BP)

The Olympus Research Corporation (ORC) made an in-depth study of want ads. It was found the ads did not offer adequate, accurate, or easily obtained information that would make it possible for job seekers to decide whether they are suited to a job, or want it. (Author/BP)